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"... BOMP! BOMP! BOMP!
Good times never seemed so good
SO GOOD! SO GOOD! SO GOOD!
I've been inclined
BOMP! BOMP! BOMP!
To believe they never would ..."
November 23, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Authoritarians having a normal one
Screenshot of the Financial Times article headline, "Vladimir Putin tells Xi Jinping organ transplants could offer immortality"
September 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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No you didn't.
August 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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@pkrugman.bsky.social made an observation a few days ago that in both crime and economics it's hard to fool people that things are great when the data shows otherwise, but the reverse isn't true: it's easy to use media influence to induce negativity.

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-play...
Paul Krugman Paul Krugman Read in the Substack app Open app Trump Plays the Carnage Card Fake crime wave, real power grab Paul Krugman Aug 12, 2025 2,830 681 505 First, some personal news. For those who may not know, I received a great honor this weekend: I have now added “Deranged BUM” to my Substack profile. But enough about me. Let’s move on to the subject of today’s post, Trump’s takeover of Washington, DC, where he has seized control of the city’s police force and sent in the National Guard. Actually, there’s some relationship between Trump’s rage-tweeting about yours truly and his move against the nation’s capital. Ever since that latest weak jobs report, Trump has been frantically trying to convince the American public that the economy is doing great. He is failing, and predictably so. Experience shows that trying to talk up the economy when people don’t perceive it as good never works, even if the data are favorable. It’s even less likely to work when the data actually aren’t good, and calling people who point out economic weakness BUMs isn’t likely to help. On the other hand, telling people things are bad even when they’re actually good can work. This is sometimes true when it comes to the economy. It’s definitely true when we’re talking about crime.
August 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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My favorite Canadian snack are these Swiss Cheese crackers. They used to be available in the US and were part of the same line of Nabisco products as Better Cheddars, Vegetable Thins, and the chicken biscuit crackers. Long discontinued, but still available up north under this brand.
A box of Christie Swiss Cheese crackers in a store in Ontario, Canada.
August 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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July 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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It's up in Harlem, but the original Patsy's has the best standard flat pizza slice I've had in Manhattan. The vodka square at Mama's Too is worth seeking out. Joe's and L'Industrie both excellent.
Vodka pizza square slice at Mama's Too Cheese pizza slice at Patsy's in Harlem
July 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Meanwhile, a short walk away ...
July 12, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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The beautiful historic Victorian house, and architectural gem (from Google Street View).
July 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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BREAKING: the android David endorses Andrew Cuomo, discourages ranking other lesser candidates
Image of the android character David from the movies Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, as played by Michael Fassbender.
June 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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I'd happily live in San Fransokyo from Big Hero 6. Good land use, great cultural vibe. I'm assuming it was also good in the previous five films but I missed them.
May 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Image of Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder as Clark Kent and Lois Lane in a diner in the movie Superman II.
May 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Photo of a health warning at Disneyland indicating features at the park are known by the State of California to cause cancer or birth defects.
May 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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"The president has a lot of analysis in front of him and I trust he will make the right choice, I’m sure."
In a still from the movie Star Wars, Grand Moff Tarkin speaks to Princess Leia on the Death Star.
March 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Bonds are contracts. This is what the Constitution has to say about them.
Text from the United States constitution: Section. 10. No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
March 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Post a warning

(Spotted in Kinvara, County Clare, Ireland)
Warning sign on a road near an Irish harbor showing a car falling off a pier into water.
March 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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They came to "cut wasteful spending" but somehow have never seen this pie chart.
Pie chart that breaks down federal government spending, showing that most goes to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and military spending.
February 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Read this off the wall when I was there in April. Amazing speech.
Photo of the wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, bearing an inscription of his second inaugural address.
January 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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I mean ...
Screenshot of the linked article that says: "Build housing—and everything else. The lack of sufficient housing is the single biggest policy failure of blue states and cities. And the only way to build enough is to reform and remove the thicket of regulations that prevent people from building housing. Enough! It needs to get done."
January 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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So that's what these people were working on in April. Cool-looking building.
Photo of the nighttime construction of the new JP Morgan building.
January 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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When the response thread on a news post is totally not being spammed.
Two responses to a Bluesky post by different accounts that say more or less the same thing.
January 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Live view of the postmortem.
Scene from the movie Back to the Future Part II in which Doc Brown explains an alternate timeline on a chalkboard.
January 1, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Fewer.
Screenshot from Facebook with a prompt asking the user whether they'd like to see more or less posts like this in their feed.
December 25, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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Nicely done.
Current Google Streetveiw image of this location
December 15, 2024 at 2:41 AM
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This use of the platform is new to me.
Image of a sculpture that is a metal arch reflecting the sky.
November 11, 2024 at 11:34 PM